[B-Greek] pronunciation of Cockney "belt", correction plus consonant notes

R Yochanan Bitan Buth ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il
Mon Nov 8 10:34:16 EST 2004


>Randall Buth wrote:
>> Also, our earliest extensive NT papyri, p46 (late 
>> 2nd century), already has SILBANOU at 2Cor 1.19, 
>> corrected to SILOUANOU.

>I'm not sure if this affects anything you wrote, but
>THE TEXT OF THE EARLIEST NEW TESTAMENT GREEK
>MANUSCRIPTS (Comfort and Barrett, corrected and
>enlarged) has "SILOUBANOU" in the text with the
>footnote: 
>
>"SILBANOU was changed to SILOUBANOU by adding OU
>superlinearly." 
>
>I.e., the B was not changed/corrected to OU; rather,
>OU was added and the B was kept.
>
>=====
>Eric S. Weiss>

Thank you, Eric. I don't have easy access to p46, so 
will look forward to checking this in the future. You 
are right, though, that either correction 
doesn't change the fact that 'B' was used in an 
environment where something like a v/w was expected, 
and Greek orthography historically used OU for this.
The Comfort-Barrett reading OUB even strengthens the 
recognition of the soft pronunciation of VETA since 
ancient editors apparently allowed it to remain 
with OU.

ERRWSO
Randall BUth

Randall Buth, PhD
Director, Biblical Language Center
www.biblicalulpan.org
and Director, Biblical Studies in Israel
Hebrew University, Rothberg International School
ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il






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